Jamestown, 1607

On May 13, 1607 104 Englishmen alighted from three relatively small vessels, the Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery, with the intent of founding an English settlement in North America and becoming impossibly rich in the process. What ensued for most of them was unending toil, privation, an early death, and an unmarked grave.They did preservere and their legacy shaped much of what America has become. According to David Hackett Fisher's Albion's Seed the institutions and ideas grafted into America at Jamestown, such as representative government and individual autonomy, were directly related to those first settlers's roots in southwest England.One can't help but notice the absence of this, the 400th birthday of the founding of America's culture, from the orgy of set-aside monocultural and racialist observances that we are told honor our "diversity." AttachmentSize jamestown.jpg63.57 KB